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Fashion plate illustrating nineteenth century women's fashion. Five women wearing (from left to right) a light orange dress with black diagonal stripes along the bottom and front, a powder blue dres with red detailing, a white dress with blue front, a white dress with vertical pink stripes and...

Fashion plate illustrating nineteenth century women's fashion. Five women wearing (from left to right) a light orange dress with black diagonal stripes along the bottom and front, a powder blue dres with red detailing, a white dress with blue front, a white dress with vertical pink stripes and large blue trim and a teal dress with dark green trim at the top, hips and bottom. A child in a white dress with blue diamond-shaped trim stands in the middle. "Mme. Demorests Mirror of Fashions. / 473 Broadway NY"

Provenance

By about 2004, purchased by Susan Ward of Lexington, MA at an antique fair in Amherst, NH; purchased from Ward by Doris May of Chestnut Hill, MA; gift of May to the MFA (Accession date: September 16, 2009)